Many studies include individuals’ prior privacy invasion experiences as an antecedent to their information privacy concern. The assumption is that people who have previous experiences with their information being compromised are more likely to have an increased concern about information disclosure (Smith et al., 1996; Xu et al., 2012). This relationship has been supported in studies where prior invasion experience did affect perceived risks of sharing information (Li et al., 2014; Pavlou and Gefen, 2005; Smith et al., 1996), including in mobile contexts (Xu et al., 2012; Xu et al., 2011).
H8. Prior invasion experience is positively related to mobile privacy concern.